The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.